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How far will a behaviourally flexible invasive bird go to innovate?
(2016)
Behavioural flexibility is considered a key factor in the ability to adapt to changing environments. A traditional way of characterizing behavioural flexibility is to determine whether individuals invent solutions to novel ...
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(2015)
Recent developments in the study of animal cognition and emotion have resulted in the ‘judgement bias’ model of animal welfare. Judgement biases describe the way in which changes in affective state are characterized by ...
Viewing images of snakes accelerates making judgements of their colour in humans
(2014)
One of the most prevalent current psychobiological notions about human behaviour and emotion suggests that prioritization of threatening stimuli processing induces deleterious effects on task performance. In order to confirm ...
Emotion recognition deficits in eating disorders are explained by co-occurring alexithymia
(The Royal Society, 2015)
Previous research has yielded inconsistent findings regarding the ability of individuals with eating disorders (EDs) to recognize facial emotion, making the clinical features of this population hard to determine. This study ...
She more than he: gender bias supports the empathic nature of yawn contagion in Homo sapiens
(2016)
Psychological clinical and neurobiological findings endorse that empathic abilities are more developed in women than in men. Because there is growing evidence that yawn contagion is an empathy-based phenomenon, we expect ...
Familiar and unfamiliar face recognition in crested macaques
(The Royal Society, 2015)
Many species use facial features to identify conspecifics, which is necessary to navigate a complex social environment. The fundamental mechanisms underlying face processing are starting to be well understood in a variety ...
Receiving of emotional signal of pain from conspecifics in laboratory rats
(2015)
Though recent studies have shown that rodents express emotions with their face, whether emotional expression in rodents has a communicative function between conspecifics is still unclear. Here, we demonstrate the ability ...
Social dominance modulates eavesdropping in zebrafish
(The Royal Society, 2015)
Group living animals may eavesdrop on signalling interactions between conspecifics and integrate it with their own past social experience in order to optimize the use of relevant information from others. However, little ...
Estimation of self motion duration and distance in rodents
(2016)
Spatial orientation and navigation rely on information about landmarks and self-motion cues gained from multi-sensory sources. In this study, we focused on self-motion and examined the capability of rodents to extract and ...
Ravens New Caledonian crows and jackdaws parallel great apes inmotor self-regulation despite smaller brains
(2016)
Overriding motor impulses instigated by salient perceptual stimuli represent a fundamental inhibitory skill. Such motor self-regulation facilitates more rational behaviour, as it brings economy into the bodily interaction ...